Lee Horsley
Born: 1955-05-15 in Muleshoe, Texas, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Lee Arthur Horsley is an American film, television, and theater actor known for starring roles in the television series Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston, and Paradise. He starred in the 1982 film The Sword and the Sorcerer and recorded the audiobook edition of Lonesome Dove. Horsley began his acting career touring in stage productions of West Side Story, Damn Yankees, and Oklahoma!. In 1981, he portrayed TV detective Archie Goodwin in the short-lived NBC drama series Nero Wolfe. He played the title character in the detective series Matt Houston, as well as Ethan Allen Cord in the Western Heritage Award-winning series Paradise. This was followed by a lead role on Bodies of Evidence. He appeared in the feature-length cult film The Sword and the Sorcerer in 1982, and appeared in its sequel Tales of an Ancient Empire in 2010. He recorded the audiobook edition of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. In 2006, Horsley and Marshall R. Teague traveled the world in search of exotic game on the Outdoor Life Network for the reality show, Benelli's Dream Hunts. In 2012. he appeared in the Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained, as Sheriff Gus, and also has a role as a stagecoach driver in Tarantino's 2015 western The Hateful Eight.
Filmography
2015
- The Hateful Eight as Ed
2012
- Django Unchained as Sheriff Gus (Snowy Snow)
2010
- Tales of an Ancient Empire as Talon
2007
- Showdown at Area 51 as Diamond Joe Carson
2003
- Dismembered as Joe Kenny
1999
- Nightmare Man as Ed Cody
1998
1996
- Home Song as Tom Gardner
- The Care and Handling of Roses as Tom Doster
1994
- Touched by an Angel as Guy Garfield
- The Man from Snowy River as Seamus O'Neil
- Unlawful Passage as Peter Browning
- Hawkeye (The First Frontier) as Natty 'Hawkeye' Bumppo
- French Silk as Detective Cassidy
- The Corpse Had a Familiar Face as Ben Nicholson
1992
- Bodies of Evidence as Lieutenant Ben Carroll
1991
- Palomino as Tate Jordan
1990
- The Face of Fear as Graham Harris
1989
- Single Women, Married Men as Ross Marino
1988
- Paradise as Ethan Allen Cord
1987
- Infidelity as Nick Denato
1986
- Crossings as Nick Burnham
1985
- North and South as Rafe Beaudeen
- Thirteen at Dinner as Bryan Martin
- When Dreams Come True as Alex Kazloff
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1982
- Matt Houston as Matt Houston
- The Sword and the Sorcerer as Talon
- The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch as Capt. John Cain
1981
- Nero Wolfe as Archie Goodwin
1977
- The Love Boat as Greg Munford